Spice Up Your Love Life

· Have a picnic
· Stargaze
· Full body massage
· Sit in the back row of a bad movie and make out
·  Buy new underwear and surprise your partner
· Go swimming
· Pick apples at Lyman’s Orchard
· Master the use of chopsticks and feed each other sushi at Mikado
· Take dancing lessons
· Have cookies and milk in the Campus Center
· Bring your sweetie juice and read him a story in the afternoon like they used to do in preschool
· Go to a concert
· Wake up really early and go to O’Rourke’s for breakfast
· Take the arts bus to New York
· Send her notes from a “secret admirer”
· Take advantage of Stop and Shop’s late hours
· Share spaghetti a la Lady and the Tramp
· See how long you can kiss without coming up for air
· Draw temporary tattoos on each other
· Take a shower together
· Make your honey a card using macaroni and glue
· Have tea at 4 pm with little cookies and sandwiches
· Convince a friend to be your waitperson and have a romantic dinner for two at Mocon, complete with menus and several courses
·  Make him a waffle at the Campus Center and bring it to him so he can have breakfast in bed
· Take pictures in one of those little photo booths and put the pictures up on the wall of your room in a place where you’ll see them often
· Get Chinese food delivered on a rainy night
· Rent a classic movie
· TALK
· Buy her a candy necklace and eat candy while she’s wearing it
· Find a recipe at epicurious.com and cook together
· Find out where and how your partner likes to be touched
· Bring your love an array of healthy snacks when he or she is stressed out with work
· See how many different ways you can use your tongue
· Share a single ice cream cone
· Buy your honey a potted plant and water it when you’re over
· Leave a huge bouquet of helium balloons tied to the doorknob
· Bake
· Play hide and seek in the stacks of Olin
· Blow bubbles
· Play in puddles
· Read to each other
· Play strip poker
· Take a road trip
· Go for a really long walk
· Take a bubble bath
· Have fun with Altoids
· Take a nap
· Have a pillow fight
· Go to the observatory on Wednesday nights and look at the stars
· Kiss a body part you’ve never kissed before
· Be workout buddies
· Hold hands
· Play in the snow
· Hike through Wadsworth Falls
· Buy your sweetie a present for no reason
· Play Twister—naked
· Spend the night in your honey’s room cuddling
· Study together and reward yourselves when you’ve both finished the problem set or reading due the next day
· Play footsie—bonus if it’s at dinner with the parents
· Finger paint
· Go camping
· Play Frisbee
· Kiss in the rain
· Pay attention when your partner mentions something he or she has always wanted, and then give it to him or her after enough time has passed that he or she forgot mentioning it
· Play War, followed by 52-pick-up
· Order pizza and eat it naked
· Brush each other’s hair
· Create your own kingdom or island and draw a map of it, adding to it often
· Climb a tree
· Do your laundry together
· Determine which flavors of condoms, lubes, and oral dams are your favorites
· Plan a scavenger hunt that takes your sweetie all over campus, with you waiting as the treasure at the end
· Go sailing
· Leave a love note for your sweetie to find when you’re not around
· Go shopping and make the other try on ridiculous outfits
· Play tennis
· Watch the sunrise
· Rent all three Star Wars or Indiana Jones movies and watch them in one night. Start early
· Make sock puppets
· Write a poem for your love
· Do her hair for her
· Whisper sweet nothings (whatever a sweet nothing is)
· Call just to say “good night”
· Wait for him outside his class and walk him to wherever he’s going next
· Reenact your first date
· Go skiing
· Make her soup when she’s sick
· Watch a scary movie
· Slow dance
· Watch a movie of a type you hate but your honey loves and stay awake and attentive through the whole thing
· Go for a bike ride
· Paint your love’s nails
· Be your partner’s biggest fan at his or her next game
· Make a mix of songs your honey loves
· Play pool in the Campus Center and admire your honey when he or she bends over
· Say “I love you” (if you really do!)

Created by the Peer Health Advocates of WesWELL, Winter 2001.